{"product_id":"drift-into-failure-from-hunting-broken-components-to-understanding-complex-systems-9781409422211","title":"Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDrift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems\u003c\/strong\u003e van Sidney Dekker is een Engelstalig gedrukt boek. Deze titel is geschikt voor studenten in het hoger onderwijs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does the collapse of sub-prime lending have in common with a broken jackscrew in an airliner's tailplane? Or the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico with the burn-up of Space Shuttle Columbia? These were systems that drifted into failure. While pursuing success in a dynamic, complex environment with limited resources and multiple goal conflicts, a succession of small, everyday decisions eventually produced breakdowns on a massive scale. We have trouble grasping the complexity and normality that gives rise to such large events. We hunt for broken parts, fixable properties, people we can hold accountable. Our analyses of complex system breakdowns remain depressingly linear, depressingly componential - imprisoned in the space of ideas once defined by Newton and Descartes. The growth of complexity in society has outpaced our understanding of how complex systems work and fail. Our technologies have gotten ahead of our theories. We are able to build things - deep-sea oil rigs, jackscrews, collateralized debt obligations - whose properties we understand in isolation. But in competitive, regulated societies, their connections proliferate, their interactions and interdependencies multiply, their complexities mushroom. This book explores complexity theory and systems thinking to understand better how complex systems drift into failure. It studies sensitive dependence on initial conditions, unruly technology, tipping points, diversity - and finds that failure emerges opportunistically, non-randomly, from the very webs of relationships that breed success and that are supposed to protect organizations from disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplores complexity theory and systems thinking to better understand how complex systems drift into failure. This book develops a vocabulary that allows us to harness complexity and find different ways of managing drift.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInhoudelijk sluit dit boek aan bij onderwerpen als Management: leadership and motivation, Corporate governance: role and responsibilities of boards and directors, TECHNOLOGY \u0026amp; ENGINEERING \/ Industrial Health \u0026amp; Safety.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Intertaal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56399801844052,"sku":"9781409422211","price":71.4,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0967\/0538\/0692\/files\/9781409422211.jpg?v=1783611831","url":"https:\/\/intertaalid.nl\/en\/products\/drift-into-failure-from-hunting-broken-components-to-understanding-complex-systems-9781409422211","provider":"Intertaal","version":"1.0","type":"link"}